Earlyarts E-bulletin No 4a EXTRA - Pre-Summer 2004
Welcome to the e-bulletin EXTRA from the earlyarts network in the North West of England. We have decided to send out an extra bulletin with dates of crucial forthcoming events as there are so many looming round the corner, they just couldn't wait for the summer e-bulletin! Feel free to use this e-bulletin to promote your work and request artists / advice / support from other readers across the region.
The Summer e-bulletin is due in July, please forward any activities, events, or news articles about your work to the email above by 24 th June .
All email addresses are hidden to ensure compliance with the Data Protection Act, however, members are free to reveal their email addresses to the group within the body of their information if they wish to do so.
Events Bulletin Board
Spark Children's Festival runs in Leicester, June 5 -12 2004, with over 90 professional performances and events for children aged 3 - 13. For tickets and information please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call The Spark office at Leicester Haymarket Theatre on 0116 253.
The festival takes place in schools, theatres, village halls, libraries and neighbourhood centres, and features some of the best UK companies producing work for young audiences. Companies include Tall Stories, New Perspectives, M6, Merseyside Young People's Theatre, Action Transport, Blueboat Theatre, Bamboozle Theatre Company, Anima Dance, Wildcard Theatre Company, Red Ladder, News from Nowhere and Sister Tree are just some of the companies performing at the festival. Royal and Derngate Theatres will also be presenting their ground-breaking interactive installation for Under-5's - Where's the Bear?
A programme for delegates is now available, as a series of one day programmes between Monday 7th and Thursday 10th June. Each day provides opportunities to see between 3 and 5 shows and to take part in discussions with participating companies. Each day costs £60 and includes refreshments, a meal and transport between venues (£50 for bookings received before 30th April). The Spark offers a great opportunity to see a wide range of companies for:
* promoters and producers of theatre and dance for young audiences
* venue programmers developing work for young audiences
* play workers/youth workers interested in developing arts programmes for young people
* artists and teachers specialising in arts education for Early Years, KS1 and KS2
* local authority arts development teams
Quicksilver Theatre will be performing their production of Upstairs in the Sky (see last e-bulletin) at Southport Arts Centre on 12th June. Tel Box Office: 01704 540011 for tickets. See http://www.quicksilvertheatre.org/for more details.
One Hundred Languages of Children exhibition tours throughout major centres in the UK from April to December 2004. Offering a unique insight into the world-renowned approach to early years education in Reggio Emilia, northern Italy, the exhibition will be of particular interest to parents, children, educators, politicians, architects, and artists amongst others. Exhibition dates: Manchester 7 April - 4 May, Newcastle 15 May - 13 June, Cambridge 24 June -21 July, Folkstone 8 Oct -31 Oct.For further details click here
Celebrating Young Children and The Arts conference - Saturday June 19 th 2004, 9am - 4pm, at Manchester Metropolitan University, Geoffrey Manton Building. Contact Elaine Alkin, IoE, on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it '; document.write( '' ); document.write( addy_text33295 ); document.write( '<\/a>' ); //-->\n This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or tel 0161 247 6425 / 2043.
This conference is the celebration of the remarkable creativity of our youngest children. It will provide opportunities fir all those involve din the care and education of babies and young children to consider ways in which they can support their love of exploration and experimentation with touch, sight, sound and movement. Key Note speakers include Lesley Abbott, Professor of Early Childhood Education at MMU; Bernadette Duffy, Head of the Thomas Coram Early Years centre; Kristen Ali Eglinton, author of Art and the Early Years; and Ros Bayley, early years consultant. Cost: £140 including lunch and book.
The 2004 PuppetSense Festival, June 19 or 20 th , at the Horse+Bamboo Centre, Bacup Road, Waterfoot, Rossendale . Hosted by Horse+Bamboo with a weekend of puppetry fun, promises to be a magical two days for the very young and the very young at heart. For the first time, PuppetSense is exclusively targeting 3-8 year olds with a fantastic line-up of companies which have reputations for the highest quality work. PuppetSense will also be unveiling two new pieces - one from of the UK's leading puppetry outfits, Dynamic New Animation (DNA) , and another from Jo Williams , called The Sunflower Show , which has been directed by Horse+Bamboo's Alison Duddle (pictured).
Another company with a glowing reputation for brilliant and original work, Banyan , will be putting on two shows over the Festival weekend. Cinderella Ashputtel is Banyan's playful reworking of the traditional Cinderella story exploring its powerful and enduring fascination in an imaginative production that will delight everyone. The show was described by The Stage as: "Brilliantly inventive and always enchanting." Banyan's other show at PuppetSense, The Steadfast Tin Soldier , a gently, witty one person play inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's poetic tale has also earned rave reviews. Time Out called it: "Best Children's Show".
More details of all the show here: http://www.horseandbamboo.org/, or telephone 01706-220241.
A Plate Spinners Tale conference , Saturday 26 th June 2004, 9.15am - 3pm, at Everton Children & Family Centre, Spencer Street, Everton, Liverpool, L6 2WF. Contact Annette James on 0151 233 1969. Organised by Liverpool City Council, the conference aims to share the learning from Sure Start and Early Excellence to Children's Centre and will include presentations from Sure Start, Early Excellence, CAMH'S and Local Parents. Cost £120
‘ Threads of Creativity' - High/Scope UK National Conference , Saturday 26th June 2004 at Bath University. Price £95.00 (inclusive of lunch).
Keynote Speaker: Peter Dixon, author of ‘The Colour of My Dreams'. Workshops available this year will include: Adult/Child Interaction -The Key to Quality; Emotional Intelligence; Supporting Quality in Early Years -Introduction to the High/Scope Approach; What you see is what you get-or is it? Child Observation Record; High/Scope to Key Stage One; Signs and symbols; Tidy Up Time; Curiosity + Support = Creativity!!!
Aimed at Early Years Practitioners, Policy Makers, Endorsed High/Scope Trainers including representatives from the public, voluntary and independent sectors. Bookings: Please complete the booking form attached and return with your payment to: High/Scope UK, Copperfield House, 192 Maple Road, London SE20 8HT. Tel: 020 8676 0220, Fax: 020 8659 9938 email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it '; document.write( '' ); document.write( addy_text67641 ); document.write( '<\/a>' ); //-->\n This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Prices are £95 Saturday /£160 Friday & Saturday. More information: http://www.high-scope.org.uk/
‘Inside-Out' - The role of Arts in Education in affecting the disaffected. Friday 2 nd July 2004. A Schools Network Annual Event hosted by LEAPArts as a one-day CPD Seminar in the Chelsfield Room at the Royal Festival Hall, 9.00am to 4.30pm . The seminar is for educators, artists, policy-makers and managers working with and/or for young people through Arts in Education. Cost: £25 if from Greater London; £50 pounds if from elsewhere. Contact Gill Hernon, Administrator, LEAPArts, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it '; document.write( '' ); document.write( addy_text8709 ); document.write( '<\/a>' ); //-->\n This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or www.leaparts.info or Tel: 020 8464 8603
We have all had times of feeling 'inside-out' and equally needing to be ‘outside-in'. The crossover line dividing opposites is often imperceptible. Any one of us can find our sanity defined as madness and visa versa. It is the same with the movement from being included to being excluded; with being affected to being disaffected; with being advantaged to being disadvantaged; with being empowered to being disempowered; and visa versa. However Art has a great power to heal, as well as to transform perceptions, particularly through its ability to celebrate the dignity, decency and wonder of humanity.
This professional development event will look at challenges posed to Arts in Education, and the obstacles they have overcome, when working to include the excluded, affect the disaffected and advantage the disadvantaged through their current theory and practice. The Seminar aims to be equally applicable to the teacher from the classroom as to the artist from the workshop. The Seminar aims to offer examples of good practice that will assist participants in developing their own skills in inspiring, motivating, encouraging creativity and participation back in their own work places. The day will be structured to contain a varied programme from a mixture of educators, artists and young people, including keynote presentations, workshop/case studies, open-mike plenary, creative inputs and practical participation.
Early Years & Primary Teaching Exhibition , 3-4 July 2004, contact Laurie Rose on T: 020 7782 3055 or
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. More information here: http://www.teachingexhibitions.co.uk
If you are an educational professional or supplier serving the needs of early years and primary education, The Early Years and Primary Teaching Exhibitions are events dedicated to you. The event includes seminars on creative teaching, and encouraging creativity in children. The exhibitions, based in London, Manchester, Glasgow and Belfast offer a great opportunity to test, compare and purchase a range of resources and services dedicated to teaching the Under 3s, the Foundation Stage and key stages 1 and 2
Crisis? What Crisis? The Institute of Ideas, in association with RoutledgeFalmer, presents a two-day public conference for anyone interested in contemporary education matters. 3-4 July 2004, at Park Crescent Conference Centre, 229 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 5PN. To book tickets call (020) 7269 9220. Standard weekend ticket £65/£50 concession. Institutional rate £100. Dinner debate £30. Day tickets available.
Education Secretary Charles Clarke recently announced that he wants to stimulate an open public debate about secondary education - this weekend conference takes him at his word. Plenary and seminar panels made up of journalists, academics, writers, practitioners, policy advisers, parents and chalk-face teachers will lead no-holds-barred discussions to examine critically what current educational initiatives mean, inspect key debates, and set some positive challenges to the status quo. Tony Blair's 1997 promise of education, education, education seemed to capture society's post-Thatcherite optimism and speak to a positive aspiration for future generations. But far from education offering the key to a better society, it seems instead that schools and teachers have been burdened with expectations, with neither the resources nor the vision to realise them. Education is presented as the solution to every social problem from obesity to teenage pregnancy, and yet it seems increasingly unclear what education means in its own terms. The constant changes and new proposals appear as a bewildering array of disjointed ideas conspicuous by their lack of educational vision. What is education for, and what should be done about it? Click here
Sessions include: What is education for? Curriculum matters - in defence of the subject; Testing times - ever shifting standards; Whatever happened to Mr Chips? The demoralisation of a profession; From the 3 Rs to media literacy; Battle of the schools - what makes a school successful? Creating citizens; Servicing the economy; Social inclusion; Individual learning - an abandonment of a universal curriculum? Sexing up the curriculum - the strange stories of science and history; The therapeutic curriculum; The creative curriculum; Teaching the teachers - what should teachers know? ; Changing theories and shifting pedagogies; From IQ to aptitude - changing theories of intelligence; From Flashman to anti-bullying buddies- changing theories of behaviour Changing theories of child development and parental involvement Creative solutions - Inspiring future generations.
ESRC Seminar 2: Creativity, the arts and achievement. 5th July 2004 - Christchurch College University, Canterbury
This is a smaller seminar, with an invited body of practitioners, researchers and policy makers, and some additional spaces held for further participants. Papers will be circulated in advance and debate on the day will focus on discussion of them. Presenters are: Professor Shirley Brice-Heath, Stanford University, Professor Christopher Bannerman, Rosie Lee and Graeme Miller from ResCen, at Middlesex University, Graham Jeffery and Rachel Fell, Newham 6th Form College and University of East London, Peter Muschamp, OFSTED, Peter Rumney and Emma MacMannus from Nottingham Creative Partnerships. There is no for charge for this seminar.
There are some additional places available. They will be awarded equally among practitioners, policy makers and researchers, in early May. If you would like to register your application for one, please let us know, together with a little about why you would like to attend, by 30th April 2004, at
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"Individual children: Group goals ", Nottingham Early Years conference is a two yearly event for the early years sector on 8 th & 9 th July 2004. This conference is hosted by NES Arnold, the Early Childhood Unit (ECU) of the National Children's Bureau and the Council for Awards in Children's Care and Education (CACHE). The conference attracts a range of delegates involved with practice, professional development and policy who are able to concentrate on specific areas of interest and benefit from networking at this long standing residential early years conference.
Each year the conference programme highlights particular areas of interest while also providing a generic look at working with children birth to eight. This year's themes are centred around the individuality of the child, with an emphasis on the following subjects; Working with very young children with special educational needs and disabilities; Working with children aged birth to three; Factors which affect children's behaviour.
Keynote speeches will be provided by Margaret Hodge, children's minister, Mary-Jane Drummond (Former Lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Cambridge) Philippa Russell (Former Director of the Council for Disabled Children and Carole Sutton (Head of Parenting Studies Unit, De Montford University). For more information or a booking form contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it '; document.write( '' ); document.write( addy_text16134 ); document.write( '<\/a>' ); //-->\n This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . - For Early Childhood Website click here
Literacy Lives: Learning Literacy in and out of Classrooms - the United Kingdom Literacy Association 40th Annual Conference, at University of Manchester, Owen's Park - 9 to 11 July 2004. Contact UKLA on 01763 241188, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it '; document.write( '' ); document.write( addy_text2414 ); document.write( '<\/a>' ); //-->\n This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or click here.
The conference will explore the literacy experiences of children, young people and adults in a range of educational, home and community settings, and how educators can draw upon this knowledge in imaginative and stimulating ways. Speakers include James Paul Gee, University of Wisconsin; Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University; Henrietta Dombey, University of Brighton; Jackie Kay, author and poet; and Geraldine McCaughrean, children's author.
Launch Pad early years and creativity conference, Thursday 15th July 2004, 10 am - 4.30 pm, A regional conference for the East Midlands, at Guildhall Arts Centre, Grantham, Lincolnshire. The cost per delegate is £50. Booking by email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Tel: 01234 714959.
Creating arts activity for the very young requires intelligent collaboration between artists, arts providers, families, child care settings and schools. This one-day conference aims to bring arts and child care providers together to explore the possibilities and to look for a way forward in the East Midlands. The programme will include keynote speeches, presentations, discussions and workshops, exploring the arts and early years from the point of view of both the arts world and the child-care sector, both statutory and voluntary. The conference is aimed at artists, arts organisations, local authority officers, Sure Start, EYDCP and nursery school practitioners who are interested in developing this area of work.
Take off Children's Theatre Festival - 10 th - 14 th October at Darlington Arts Centre. Takeoff is a Festival of professional theatre for children and young people, offering a unique window on the world of the senses, societies and feelings. One of the oldest arts we enjoy, but always fresh and responsive to each new audience.
This year will see several plays for the very young with workshops and international exchange of best practice. Guest companies from France, Belgium and Germany bring delightful new ideas. Children, parents, teachers and school governors, together with professional theatre makers and presenters from all over the UK will be here to celebrate. Tickets not yet available, but email here and ask for a festival programme This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it '; document.write( '' ); document.write( addy_text81725 ); document.write( '<\/a>' ); //-->\n This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Early Years and the Arts professional development seminar hosted by LEAPARTS, Friday 15 th October at The Royal Festival Hall, London. Featuring performances and work by La Barracca Theatre Company from Bologna, the conference will examine different European approaches to working with the very young. The guest presentations reflect the diversity of art forms, methods and specialist areas that the early years Arts in Education practice encompasses. Booking not yet open, but see the next e-bulletin for details, or contact Gill Hernon, Administrator, LEAPArts, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it '; document.write( '' ); document.write( addy_text56287 ); document.write( '<\/a>' ); //-->\n This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or www.leaparts.info or Tel: 020 8464 8603
Child in the City conference, 20-22 October 2004 at City Hall, London.
Second European Congress in association with the National Children's Bureau and London Play. The purpose of this two and a half day international conference is to bring together social scientists, policy makers, planners and practitioners to share current thinking and disseminate good practice on integrating the play and recreational needs of children within the planning, design and governance of the modern city. For further details visit www.londonplay.org.uk/listings.htm
New Worlds Early Years and Creativity conference , 5 th November at West Yorkshire Playhouse (WYP), Leeds. Booking not yet open - see the next e-bulletin for details, and put this date in your diary. Cost: £90 with lower concessionary places available. Organised by WYP in partnership with Arts Council England, Yorkshire.
The theme of the conference is New Worlds, exploring different models of creative practice with very young children in the UK and across Europe and North America. This builds on two areas of current work - the first being the Whole New Worlds series of workshops run by the WYP for parents and their babies to stimulate creativity and imagination through play. The WYP are working with organisations including Sure-Starts, Women's Prisons, Women's Aid, Early Years Centres and Private Day Nurseries. The second is the research into European models of practice currently being undertaken by early years and cultural consultants, Isaacs UK, on behalf of the Arts Council of England. Results from both areas of work will feed into and inform the proceedings of the conference itself.
The aim of the conference is to share knowledge and broaden the understanding of arts and early years practitioners in Yorkshire, looking at opportunities and possibilities and gaining inspiration and vision from further a field. This is the first stage in the Arts Council's strategy for Yorkshire's Creativity and Early Years network. The next stage will emerge from the conference in terms of where the practitioners in the Yorkshire network want to go next, such as setting up an exchange programme or showcase next year with partners in Europe and North America.
St Helens Early Years Conference is to be held on 12 November and is entitled: 'The Child, A Creative Being' and key speakers include Prof Iram Siraj-Blatchford and Penny Vines. More details in the next e-bulletin.
How to Catch a Moonbeam and Pin It Down conference - Friday 19 th November 2004, at International Convention centre, Birmingham. Contact Janet Robinson, Administrator Early Years, St Thomas Coram Centre of Excellence, Bell Barn Road, Attwood Green, Birmingham, B15 2AF. El: 0121 464 0002.
A one day national conference on the arts and creativity in the early years, organized in partnership with Birmingham City Council, Youth Music Action Zones, Birmingham EYDCP and the Arts Council of England. Cost: £130 early bird or £175 per delegate.
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